When I tried to log in I got this string at the top of the log in page: a2c9776e-66b2-46a3-bd8f-c9b6b6a1327d

I have NO idea about programming, so I uninstalled opensim and tried to re-install. Instead of starting from scratch, however, it goes straight to the point I had reached at the first attempt.

Either I did something wrong in setting things up or the shortcut isn’t pointing in the right direction. I have no idea what to do now to rectify things and wondered if you could point me in the right direction.

Sorry to be bothering you with this, I was only intending to have a look and now I find I don’t want to just give up:)

Boo

http://chapter-and-metaverse.blogspot.com/2008/11/3-remotely-connecting-to-standalone-sim.html

The writer of the post and several writers of comments succeeded in “remotely” connecting to a sim on their own computer - which seems to mean connecting with the same protocol AS IF you were going between two machines. Their methods have to do with static IP addresses and port forwarding - which shouldn’t be necessary for me since I have a static address on my distant server.

But other comment writers failed, after having tried all the same tricks. I myself tried opening the Default.xml file and setting “external_host_name” equal to my server’s IP address (and the same in the viewer shortcut), as described in the post. But without success. I would say the software needs to contain more diagnostic tools to help the user figure out what goes wrong at this stage.

If you look at my more recent posts, you will see that I had problems that had more do more with my router’s capabililties (Nat bounce), than with OpenSim software. So instead of running OpenSim on my home computer, I’ve rented a server and will try to get it working on that.

And hey, now that I’ve visited your website, one of these days I’ll have to visit your sims!

In case anyone else landed here the same way I did, a few quick updates:

All the problems mentioned above have been fixes. On your standalone, you can easily edit the terrain (and even save and restore backups of the entire region). Linking to OSGrid (or other grids) is now pretty easy, with OSGrid, for example, issuing a complete set of files so you don’t have to do any fiddling.

Also, it’s easy to make it so that you can teleport from your standalone to anywhere on the hypergrid metaverse. I’m currently running four full regions on a home computer, and jump back and forth to OSGrid daily, transfering assets and having friends visit and so on.

There are still hiccups but they’re more of the “I had a company meeting scheduled for 10 people on my sim and some are having problems jumping from certain grids — this worked yesterday, when will this be fixed”? as opposed to, “This software is so new… it will have great potential someday.”

Basically, my standalone region seems only just slightly less reliable than Secondlife right now, but not significantly so, and once they finish debugging the new voice system, I’ll have all the functionality I need.

- Maria

Connecting your sim to an existing grid may be the easiest choice, because someone else will manage some issues for you.

I think you could jump directly to 3rd step, but again - do whatever you feel more inclined to

Good Luck with Opensimulator!

“Standalone” mode probably means that you run the sim and the viewer ON THE SAME MACHINE. Whereas I’m trying to connect the viewer on my PC to the sim running on my distant server. In order for that to work, my sim should probably be running in “Grid” mode.

But before I can test that, I should progress through the natural series of learning stages. These seem to be:

1) Run OpenSim with MySQL in place of SQLite
2) Connect your sim to an existing grid (such as OSGrid)
3) Run your own sim (or sims) as a grid

So that’s my program - if I can just find time. I’ll post updates about my progress to this blog.

_________________

inetnum: 195.2.240.0 - 195.2.241.255
netname: PIN-NET
descr: Petersburg Internet Network LLC
country: RU
org: ORG-SISL5-RIPE
admin-c: MNV32-RIPE
tech-c: LAV66-RIPE
tech-c: SEO-RIPE
status: ASSIGNED PI
mnt-by: SPIS-MNT
mnt-by: RIPE-NCC-HM-PI-MNT
mnt-lower: RIPE-NCC-HM-PI-MNT
mnt-routes: SPIS-MNT
mnt-domains: SPIS-MNT
source: RIPE # Filtered

organisation: ORG-SISL5-RIPE
org-name: PIN LLC
org-type: OTHER
descr: Petersburg Internet Network LLC
address: korp. 1a 40 Slavy ave.,
address: St.-Petersburg, Russia
e-mail: support@internet-spb.ru
phone: +7 812 4483863
fax-no: +7 812 4483863
admin-c: MNV32-RIPE
tech-c: LAV66-RIPE
tech-c: SEO-RIPE
mnt-ref: SPIS-MNT
mnt-by: SPIS-MNT
source: RIPE # Filtered

person: Metluk Nikolay Valeryevich
address: korp. 1a 40 Slavy ave.,
address: St.-Petersburg, Russia
e-mail: nm@internet-spb.ru
phone: +7 812 4483863
fax-no: +7 812 2683113
nic-hdl: MNV32-RIPE
mnt-by: SPIS-MNT
source: RIPE # Filtered

person: Ladoha Anton Vladimirovich
address: korp. 1a 40 Slavy ave.,
address: St. Petersburg, Russia
e-mail: admin@internet-spb.ru
phone: +7 812 4483863
fax-no: +7 812 2683113
nic-hdl: LAV66-RIPE
mnt-by: SPIS-MNT
source: RIPE # Filtered

person: Strukov Evgeny Olegovich
address: korp. 1a 40 Slavy ave.,
address: St.-Petersburg, Russia
phone: +7 812 4483863
nic-hdl: SEO-RIPE
mnt-by: SPIS-MNT
source: RIPE # Filtered

194.165.42.137
68.47.124.232
80.94.174.88
86.22.173.95
87.225.34.196
87.225.33.54
87.225.32.99
89.142.241.132
94.102.60.151
94.102.60.152
94.102.60.153
94.102.60.183